How to use Epson Artisan 810 wireless printer?

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How to use Epson Artisan 810 wireless printer?

#1 Post by Evil20071 »

Ok... So, I'll be dumb for a minute. I've downloaded the .pets for the Epson series printers, I've installed it. I still can't get CUPS to register my network printer? I've gone through all the CLI stuff trying to get it, but it still doesn't read it when I go to set it up.


Edit: However, I can access the Network Administration page of the printer. It is connected to my network via wireless.
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Re: Epson Artisan 810

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Evil20071 wrote:I've downloaded the .pets for the Epson series printers, I've installed it. I still can't get CUPS to register my network printer?
What Puppy are you using? Are you running a firewall?

When you run Add Printer or Find New Printers, does CUPS detect the device? You may have to run Find New Printers several times.

If not, many Epson printers use the network "socket" protocol. So you can run "Add Printer" and manually enter the URI as "socket://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd".
I've gone through all the CLI stuff trying to get it, but it still doesnt' read it when I go to set it up.
What do you mean?

Go to the command line and type:

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mpscan -p 9100 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
What do you get back?

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# mpscan -p 9100 192.168.1.103
ip: 192.168.1.103 9100 OK
No. Cups doesn't register the device at all.

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#4 Post by rcrsn51 »

In that case, run Add Printer and select AppSocket/JetDirect

Enter the URI as

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socket://192.168.1.103

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#5 Post by Evil20071 »

Ok... You're a genius... I'm obviously not. Thanks so much! :D

It's working, now, thanks to you.
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#6 Post by rcrsn51 »

Evil20071 wrote:It's working, now, thanks to you.
Excellent. I don't know why CUPS has trouble auto-detecting some network printers. The old CUPS 1.3.11 was much better at this.

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#7 Post by peterr2 »

Hello
I am in Puppy 5.6 an have tried for the longest time to print. Without printing it is of no use. is there any tip you can give me to enable this Puppy to print my HP Officejet 6500A?
Thank a lot
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#8 Post by Griamlanse »

CUPS could not find my local (not network) printer. My problem was my browser security configuration restricts most cookies. Enabling cookies from ''localhost" resolved this issue, and then CUPS worked fine.

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